ARTICLES ABOUT ACCIDENT BY DATE - PAGE 2

Carlton Williams said his daughter Kayla never felt comfortable crossing the James River Bridge when she started working in Newport News more than three months ago. It made her nervous, especially when she crossed over the newly installed grid deck at the span of the bridge. "She had expressed it on many occasions that she didn't like it," Williams said. But the night of Monday, July 1, as she rode across the bridge, the unthinkable happened. Virginia State Police said the 20-year-old Smithfield woman lost control of her Ford SUV and slammed into the median on the bridge.

As motorists flocked to Virginia roads during the Fourth of July weekend, Virginia State Police issued over 6,000 traffic tickets in the Eastern region of the state. Sgt. Michelle Anaya, a spokeswoman for Virginia State Police, said more than 187 crashes took place during the holiday weekend, including one fatal accident. The Fourth of July holiday is usually a time for gridlock on the interstate in Hampton Roads. AAA predicted more than 1.1 million Virginians would hit the roads this holiday season.

School board endssenior's suspension The Williamsburg/James City County School Board lifted the suspension for a Jamestown High senior who had a kitchen knife in his car on campus. Chris Mooney, the 12th-grader's father, said his son uses the knife while working in the kitchens at Colonial Williamsburg. Gary Dunaway: A small glimmer of hope from normally inflexible, petty bureaucrats. Selena Van Hout: Good! Finally some common sense paying off! Rls Perry: Has anyone ever thought that just the fact that the young man has a job says something about his character?

- Annette Firth has seen dozens of accidents in 68 years of living on Beach Road. Firth, a lifelong resident of the Hampton community, said she's seen cars lose control as they navigate the curve traveling eastbound into the 900 block of street. She said cars have flipped into the nearby marsh or crashed into a neighbor's yard. Accidents along the road usually have one thing in common: speed, she said. "This road has had more wrecks and more speeders," Firth said. "They use this 900 block as a raceway.

The two people who died in a North Carolina boating accident on the Yeopim River were identified Saturday, The Virginian-Pilot reports. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission said the victims were Daniel Manke, 50, of Hertford, N.C., and Blaine Weyant, 48, of Edenton, N.C. Edward White, 47, of Hertford, survived the incident. He was treated at Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City and released. The boat the men were riding in ran aground near Elizabeth City. The names of the victims have not been released.

A major vehicle accident Saturday in James City County, attributed to racing on a street, caused three people to be hospitalized. It also caused the closure of westbound Richmond Road in the 8900 block for several hours in order to investigate. According to Maj. Steve Rubino, James City County Police responded at 2:54 p.m. to the accident in Toano. Preliminary investigation revealed that two vehicles were traveling westbound on Richmond Road at high speed. According to Rubino, a 1997 Volkswagen sedan, driven by a 31-year old Lanexa man, lost control near James City Recycling.

A Virginia Beach-based Navy SEAL died Wednesday in a training accident at Fort Knox, Ky., the Navy announced Friday. Petty Officer Third Class Jonathan H. Kaloust, 23, was killed when his Humvee overturned, according to a press release. Seven other service members had minor injuries that required treatment. Kaloust was assigned to a Navy SEAL team at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. "The Naval Special Warfare community is deeply saddened by this tragic accident," said Capt.

Police and state records shed light on a March accident at Craft Machine Works, where Aleksandr L. "Sasha" Berelovich, a repair mechanic, was crushed to death. State safety investigators have not commented on the March 27 incident while it is under review, but a Hampton police report obtained by the Daily Press through a Freedom of Information Act request gives an account of what happened. It was early in the day when Berelovich was called to fix the door to an oven used to heat steel at the Hampton-based manufacturer, according to the report, which is based largely on an interview of a company employee and witness, whose name was redacted throughout.

GLOUCESTER — All lanes of southbound Route 17 at Fiddlers Green Road are open following a tractor-trailer accident , according to a Virginia Department of transportation spokeswoman. The accident occurred just after 3 p.m. and the road was cleared within an hour.

Jerry Nadeau still draws an imaginary line down the middle of his body to describe the accident that changed his life 10 years ago this week. On one side of the line his body feels normal, on the other side it's still numb. That's the result of a brain injury sustained in practice for a NASCAR Cup race at Richmond International Raceway. His Chevy spun and hit the Turn 1 wall at 135 times the force of gravity. It was the hardest impact measured by a NASCAR black-box data recorder at the time.